He'll Never Understand

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Supplies

1 tube of choice - I’m using the artwork of Olivia which you can purchase here
Font of Choice - I’m using Twinkle Toes here
Yarrow Mask 9 here
“Something Beautiful” a PTU scrap kit by Tina’s Magical Scrap World here and can be purchased at Exquisite Scraps here
Tina, I just couldn't leave this beautiful kit alone and made another!

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up a blank 700 X 700 canvas. Flood fill white.

Copy and paste Lace Frame 2 as a new layer. Resize 70%. Use your Magic Wand and click inside of it.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 6.

Copy and paste a paper of choice below the frame. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete button.

Copy and paste your tube below the frame. Resize to your liking.
Hit the delete key.
Effects/Photo Effects/Sepia Toning
Amount to Age: 60

Add your embellishments: I used:
Curl Bow 1: Resize 50%
Bead Charm 1: Resize 70% Free Rotate right 80 degrees
Butterfly 2: Resize 50%
Calla 1: Resize 70%
Key 1 & 2: Resize 30% Free rotate left 30 degrees
Single Calla 2: Resize 50% Free rotate left 85 degrees

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Highlight your white canvas. New Raster Layer. Select All. Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection. Apply the mask. Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name. I set my foreground and background to Pattern and used papers from the kit. Stroke 2.
I also used an inner bevel:
Bevel: 2
Width: 7
Smoothness: 55
Depth: 16
Ambience: -27
Shininess: 45
Color: white
Angle: 135
Intensity: 31
Elevation: 88
Ok

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!

Hugs,

Bev
　

New Adventures

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Supplies

5 tubes of choice - I’m using the artwork of Keith Garvey which you can purchase here.
Font of Choice - I’m using Polo here
Weescotlass Mask 6 here
“Emerald Sky” a PTU scrap kit by Pimp’d Dezigns and can be purchased at Paradise4Scrappers

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up a blank 700 X 700 canvas. Flood fill white.

Copy and paste Multi Frame as a new layer.

Use your Magic Wand and click inside of each square.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 3
Copy and paste a paper of choice below the frame.
Selections/Invert
Hit the delete button.
Deselect.

Highlight your frame layer. Use your Magic Wand and click inside one of the frames. Copy and paste your tube of choice below the frame. Be sure to free rotate 10 degrees to the left or right - depending on which particular frame you’re putting a tube in.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 3.
Hit your delete button.
Deselect.

Repeat the above step until you have all your tubes in the frames.

In the 3 smallest frames I placed Lilacs: Resize 30% and 90%.

Close out your white canvas and merge visible. Open your canvas back up.
Add your embellishments. I used:
Vintage Flower: Resize 80%
Flora 2: Resize 60%.
Flower 1: Resize Resize 60%. Duplicate, resize 80%

Highlight your white canvas. Select All. Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection. Deselect. Apply your mask. Merge group. Resize 110%.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name. I made a gradient:
Angel: 0
Repeat: 1

And used an inner bevel:
Bevel: 2
Width: 6
Smoothness: 5
Depth: 10
Ambience: 13
Shininess: 12
Color: white
Angle: 315
Intensity: 30
Elevation: 50
Ok

Add a heavy drop shadow

Crop your image and resize if you want.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
I’d love to see your results.
Email me :O)

Hugs,

Bev

Jack & Jills's True Love

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Supplies
2 Images of choice - I’m using the artwork of Zindy S.D. Nielsen here
Font of Choice - I’m using Bonheur Royale.

It appears it's now a pay font. Any scripty type font from here will work.
Weescotlass Mask 84 here
“Something Beautiful” a PTU scrap kit by Tina’s Magical Scrap World here and can be purchased at Exquisite Scraps here
Tina, thank you so much for such a beautiful scrap kit!

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up a blank 700 X 700 canvas. Flood fill white.

First we’re going to assemble the heart frame.
Open up Sequenheart 1 and paste as a new layer. Resize 80%. Use your Magic Wand and click inside of it. Selections/Modify/Expand by 6.
Copy and paste a paper of choice below the frame. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete button. Select none.
Copy and paste your image of choice below the frame. Highlight your frame layer and click inside with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels: 58
Selections/Invert
Tap your delete key until your image is feathered nicely inside the frame.
Select none.
Close out your white canvas. Merge visible. Open your canvas back up. Free rotate left 15 degrees.
Move the merged heart layer near the upper left portion of your canvas. You can move it into exact position later on.

Now we’re going to assemble String Frame 2.
Copy and paste it as a new layer. Resize 80%. Use your Magic Wand and click inside of it. Selections/Modify/Expand by 2. Copy and paste a paper of choice below it. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Deselect.
Copy and paste your image of choice below the frame. Highlight the frame layer and click your Magic Wand inside of it.
Selections/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels: 58
Selections/Invert
Tap your delete key until your image is feathered nicely inside the frame.
Select none.

Copy and paste Knot Ribbon 1 as a new layer. Resize 70% and move into position over the frame layer. Once you have it where you want it, duplicate. Move the original just below the frame. Highlight the copy layer. Use your Eraser Tool and erase parts of the ribbon to give the affect as if the ribbon is twisted below parts of the frame.

Close out your white canvas and your merged heart layer. Merge visible. Resize 80% and move both of your merged frame layers into position where you want them.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Candle 2 - Resize 70%
Candle 3 - Resize 40%
Keys 1 & 2 - resize 40%
Bow Flowers 1,2,and 3 - Resize 40%
Butterfly 3 - Resize 30%

Highlight your white canvas. New Raster layer. Select All. Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection. Select none. Apply the mask. Merge Group.

New Raster Layer. Select All. Copy and paste a contrasting colored paper of choice Into Selection. Select none. Apply the same mask. Merge Group.

Move the mask slightly to the left. Now move the other mask to line up the white lines that are in both masks. Once you’ve done that then merge down. Resize 105%.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
I used an inner bevel on mine:
Bevel: 1
Width: 7
Smoothness: 55
Depth: 16
Ambience: -27
Shininess: 45
Color: white
Angle: 135
Intensity: 31
Elevation: 88

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial as much as I enjoyed working with this gorgeous kit. The possibilities for creating tags with this kit are endless!!

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!

Hugs,

Bev

Sweet Summer Rain

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The tag below will not enlarge, but shows the animation

Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice. I'm using the artwork of Gennadiy Kouffay which you can purchase here
Font of choice - I'm using Matura MT Script C – came with my pc
Vanderlee – Snowflakes here
Animation Shop
"At the Beach" PTU tagger kit by Bits ‘n Bobs which can be found here. You can visit Julie’s blog here where you can have a look at more of her talent.

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

The easiest way to complete this tut is if we assemble the entire tag first and then go back to duplicate layers, etc…getting it ready to carry into Animation Shop. I hope I didn’t scare ya off already. It really isn’t hard at all…promise:O)

Open up a blank 700 X 700 canvas. Flood fill white.

Copy and paste a Frame as a new layer. Use your magic wand and click inside of it. Selections/Modify/Expand by 6. Copy and paste Paper 5 as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete button.

New Raster Layer. Effects/3D Effects/Cutout:
Vertical and Horizontal: 10
Opacity and Blur: 25
Color: Black

Repeat the above step accept change the vertical and horizontal number to -10.

Copy and paste your tube beneath the cutout layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Flower Clip 2
Deck Chair 2
Paper Fold 3: Resize 50%
Tag 4

Type out the words:
Sweet Summer Rain (or whatever you choose) and position them at the top of your canvas.

Highlight your white canvas. New Raster Layer. Selectioins/Select All. Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection. Deselect. Apply the mask. Resize 110%.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name. For the name I used:
Foreground: #705437
Background: Set to Pattern using Paper 5
Stroke: 2
Tip: Don’t drop shadow your name
Give it a slight inner bevel:
Bevel: 2
Width: 3
Smoothness: 35
Depth: 2
Ambience: -8
Shininess: 10
Color: white
Angle: 315
Intensity: 75
Elevation: 20
OK

~Now we’re going to start making layers for the animation~

Highlight your Frame Layer. Use your Magic Wand and click inside of it. Selections/Modify/Expand by 6.
Tip: If you already drop shadowed your frame the make your Expand number larger. You want the dotted lines on the frame, not inside the frame.

Highlight your tube layer. Now create 4 new Raster Layers renaming them Rain 1, 2, 3, 4.
Highlight Rain 1 and apply The Vanderlee Snowflakes with the following settings.



Repeat this with Rain layers 2, 3, and 4 but be sure that each time you apply it you move the random seed button to a different number! After you’ve done this step to all the rain layers then deselect.

Now go back to Rain Layer 1.
Adjust/Blur/Motion Blur:
Angle: 207
Strength: 35
OK

Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen More

Repeat the above steps with Rain layers 2, 3, and 4.

Close out Rain Layers 2, 3, and 4.

Now for your name we’re going to do almost the same thing.
Duplicate your name 3x for a total of 4 layers. Rename them Name 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Highlight Name 1.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Modify/Contract by 2
New Raster Layer
Apply Vanderlee Snowflake – same settings as before.
Tip: Be sure the number is lowered near 0 again as we’re going to have to move the random seed with each name layer. The number don’t have to be the exact same as you used on the frame rain :O)
Apply the same Motion Blur as before
Deselect
Adjust/Sharpen/Sharpen More
Merge Down
Drop Shadow.
Close the layer out.

Repeat the above steps with Name Layers 2, 3, and 4.
Close out layers 2, 3, and 4.

We’re ready to animate!!

Close out all your layers. Only open up your white canvas layer, mask layer, paper background to the frame, your tube layer, and Rain Layer 1. Copy Merge and carry into Animation Shop.
Paste As New Animation.

Go back into PSP. Close out Rain Layer 1 and Open up Rain Layer 2. Copy Merge and carry into Animation Shop.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame

Repeat the above with Rain layers 3 and 4.

Go back into PSP and close out all your layers again. Open up your Frame layer and all your embellishments. DO NOT OPEN UP ANY OF YOUR NAME LAYERS. Copy Merge and carry into AS.
Click on the Propogate Paste icon at the top of the screen (it looks like a film strip).
Highlight the working animation that we’ve already started. Ctl + A to highlight all the frames. Now press Ctl + E. Position the frame and then click your mouse. Go ahead, check out your animation! Lookin’ good?!

Now go back into PSP. Highlight Name Layer 1 and carry into AS.
Paste As New Animation.
Back into PSP. Copy Name Layer 2 and carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.
Repeat this step with Name Layers 3 and 4.
Ctl + A to highlight all the name frames.
Highlight your animated tag. Highlight all the frames.
The Propogate Paste button should still be pressed.
Ctl + E and position your name.

Resize your animation:
Animation/Resize animation:
Percentage of Original checked
85%

Save your tag.

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev

Easter Surprises

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Supplies Needed

4 tubes of choice. I'm using the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis which you can purchase here
Font of choice - I'm using Bibliotheque here
Template 13 by Babes Designz here
Becky Mask 22 here
EyeCandy 5: Impact - Optional
This is a tagger’s size scrap kit created by Eclipse’s Creations and is in the Pink Krush Easter Collaboration which can be found here. You can visit Pink Krush’s blog here.
Thank you so much, Eclipse for another super scrap kit!

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up the template. Delete the copyright layer. Highlight Left Triangle layer. Selections/Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Deselect. Give it a slight inner bevel:
Bevel: 2
Width: 3
Smoothness: 35
Depth: 2
Ambience: -8
Shininess: 10
Color: white
Angle: 315
Intensity: 75
Elevation: 20
OK
Delete the template layer.

Repeat the above steps on every layer using a different paper.

Highlight the frame layer. Use your Magic Wand and click inside of each square. New Raster layer. Flood fill with a light color of your choice.

Copy and paste a tube of choice below the frame layer. Move into position. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete button. Repeat this step for the other 2 frames using a different tube in each one. Deselect.

Highlight your stars layer.
Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:
Random checked
Noise: 30%
OK

Highlight your frame layer. Copy and paste Floral Ribbon 4 as a new layer. Resize 30%. Line it up along the bottom of the frame making sure the end of the flower ribbon is at the left corner of the frame. It’s not long enough so duplicate and move it to just overlap at the last flower. Merge down. It’s definitely way too long now so to shorten it, use your Selection Tool and trace around the end flower and surround the overage of flower ribbon with the dotted lines.



Hit the delete button. Duplicate/Flip. Duplicate/Free rotate 90% and shorten to fit the short side of the frame.
Tip: If you intend to put a bow at the top corners of the frame then line up the flower end at the bottom of the frame and just erase the overage off at the top instead of trying to make it look nicely finished off….the bow will hide it….hehehe
Yikes, I hope I didn’t confuse you!

Duplicate/Mirror. Your frame should now be outlined with flowers.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Bow 3: Resize 30%
Basket 4: Resize 30%

Highlight your white canvas. New Raster layer. Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection. Select none. Apply the mask. Merge Group. I used the Pick Tool and pulled the mask out on each side just a little and moved it down slightly. Then I cropped the image.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name. I added the same bevel to my name and used the same settings of Noise. I also added a gradient glow:
Basic Tab
Outside Glow checked
Mask Selection checked
Glow Radius: 5
Soften Corners: 0
Overall Opacity: 100
Distortion Amount: 0
Distortion Lump Size: 100
Smoothness: 46
Color: white
OK

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev

Easter with Elias

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Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice. I'm using the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis which you can purchase here
Font of choice - I'm using Boomerang
Toadies - Ommadawn
This is a tagger’s size scrap kit created by RebelChick’s Scraps and is in the Pink Krush Easter Collaboration kit which can be found here. You can visit Pink Krush’s blog here.
Thank you so much, RebelChick for such a colorful Easter scrap kit!

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open a new canvas 700 X 700. Flood fill white. Copy and paste Frame 3 as a new layer. Free rotate 90 degrees. Move to the left side of your canvas.

Use your Magic Wand and click inside of each square. Selections/Modify/Expand by 6. Copy and paste a paper of choice below the frame. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete button.

Selections/Invert. New Raster Layer.
Effects/3D Effects/Cutout
Vertical and Horizontal: -15
Opacity and Blur: 25
Color: black
OK

Selections/Invert.
Copy and paste Bunny 4 as a new layer below the Cutout Layer. Resize 60%. Position under the top frame. Hit the delete button.

Copy and paste Chick 2 as a new layer below the cutout layer. Resize 85% and 90%. Position in the center of the bottom frame.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Bow Patterend 4 & 5: Resize 50%
Snowdrop 2 & 3: Resize 70%
Butterfly 1
Eggs: 40%
Basket: Resize 50% and colored to match my tag
Easter Grass 2: 30%
Egg 10: Resize 50%

Assembly of the basket:
After you’ve resized and recolored (if you choose to recolor) the basket, copy, paste, and resize all the eggs. Move them over the basket, arranging them in a way you like. Don’t be afraid to rotate some of them…eggs don’t all sit straight up and down in a basket…hehehe Then arrange your Easter grass clumps amongst the eggs. Merge visible all the eggs and Easter grass. Be sure it is over the basket exactly where you like. Dupicate the basket and move the layer above the eggs. Use your eraser tool and erase parts of the basket so that the eggs now look like they’re sitting inside of it. Highlight your merged egg and grass layer and erase the part that’s hanging out below the basket. Merge visible the egg and basket layers. Ta da! Lookin’ good?

Close out your white canvas and merge visible all layers. Duplicate. On the merged layer apply Blur/Gaussian Blur/Radius: 20
Apply Toadies/Ommadawn/Default settings.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name. I used clumps of grass and and an egg to dress my name up.

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev

Krush On You

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Supplies Needed

2 tubes of choice. I'm using the artwork of Keith Garvey which you can purchase here
Font of choice - I'm using Fat – came with my pc
Template 15 by Babes Designz here
Greg’s Factory Output Vol. II – Pool Shadow – Optional
Penta.com – Dot and Cross - Optional
This is a tagger’s size scrap kit created by RebelChick’s Scraps and is in the Pink Krush Collab which can be found here. You can visit Pink Krush’s blog here.
Thank you so much, RebelChick for another fun and fab kit to use!

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up the template. Shift + D. Close out the original. Delete the credit layer.

Highlight Rectangles Layer. Select All/Float/Defloat. New Raster Layer. Flood fill with a gradient that will match your tubes. Delete the template layer. Give it a slight inner bevel:
Bevel: 2
Width: 3
Smoothness: 35
Depth: 2
Ambience: -8
Shininess: 10
Color: white
Angle: 315
Intensity: 75
Elevation: 20
OK

Duplicate. Highlight the original layer.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur
Radius: 20

Penta.com/Dot and Cross
Apply default settings.

Highlight Flower Frame. Select All/Float/Defloat. New Raster Layer. Flood fill with the same gradient. Delete the template layer. Give it the same slight inner bevel. Duplicate. Highlight the original layer.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur
Radius: 20

Penta.com/Dot and Cross
Apply default settings.

Highlight Circle Fill layer. Select All/Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete button. Delete the template layer.

Highlight the Flower Frame. Use your Magic Wand and click inside of it. Selections/Modify/Expand by 4. Selections Invert. Copy and paste your tube of choice below the frame layer. Move into position. Hit the delete key. Deselect.

Highlight Frame layer. Select All/Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete button. Delete the template layer. Apply the same slight inner bevel.

Highlight Frame Fill layer. Select All/Float/Defloat. Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete button. Delete the template layer.

Highlight Frame layer. Use your Magic Wand and click inside of it. Selections/Modify/Expand by 3. Selections Invert. Copy and paste your tube of choice below the frame layer. Move into position. Hit the delete key. Deselect. Duplicate/Mirror.

In the layer pallet move the Dot and Cross layer to the Flower Frame below your tubes that are in the square frames.

Create a new canvas 700 X 700. Flood fill with your gradient. Copy. Close it out – we don’t need it any more.

Go back to your working canvas and highlight Squared Dot Line layer.
Edit/paste as new layer.
The gradient you just made should cover your entire working canvas. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Delete the template layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Daisy 1 & 4: Resize 30%
Heart: Resize 25% Free rotate left 25 degrees. Duplicate/resize 80%.
Butterfly 5: Resize 50%. Free rotate left 25 degrees.
Doodle 1: Resize 60%

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev

Time Away

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Supplies Needed

2 tubes of choice. I'm using the artwork of Jennifer Janesko which you can purchase here
Font of choice - I'm using Aquarelle here
Babes Designz Mask 15 here
Weescotlass Frame Set 1 here. (Frames Set 1 – use Frame 5)
Filters Unlimited 2 - Optional
"Into the Past" PTU scrap kit by Swheat Creations which can be found here. You can visit her site here.
This kit is beautiful and filled with lots of charm.

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up the frame. Shift + D. Close out the original. Resize the canvas to 650 X 650. Select All/Float/Defloat. Pick a color that will match your tube and flood fill the frame. You may even need to enlarge and fill in a couple of gray gaps. Deselect.
Filters Unlimited 2/Paper Textures/Japanese Paper/default settings.
Give it a slight inner bevel:
Bevel: 11
Width: 3
Smoothness: 35
Depth: 2
Ambience: -8
Shininess: 10
Color: white
Angle: 315
Intensity: 75
Elevation: 20
OK

Use your Selection Tool and outline the circular areas of the frame.


Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer beneath the frame. Resise 70%. Selections/Invert. Hit the delete key. Deselect.

Use your Selection Tool again and outline the top frame.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer beneath the frame. Hit the delete key. Deselect.

Repeat the above with the bottom frame.

Now we’re going to outline the top frame with lace.
Copy and paste Lace 4 as a new layer. Resize 15%. Free rotate right 13 degrees. Give it a very light drop shadow and then line it up along the bottom of the frame. Erase any overhang. Duplicate/Mirror/Flip. Duplicate/Free Rotate Left 90 degrees. Duplicate/Mirror/Flip. Yikes! Hope I didn’t lose ya! If I didn’t, repeat for the bottom frame.

Add your embellishments:
Dahlia 1: Resize 25%
Dahlia 2: Resize 25%
Dahlia 6: Resize 25%
Bow 4a: Resize 25%
Heart Box 5: Resize 15%. Free rotate left 25 degrees
Butterfly 3: Resize 25% and 90%
Buttefly 6: Resize 25% and 90%
Journal 1: Use Selection Tool to delete rings on top and bottom
Resize 35%. Free Rotate 35 degrees

Highlight your white canvas. New Raster Layer. Select All. Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection. Deselect. Apply the mask. Merge group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev